In 2023, AB Mauri further increased its use of renewable energy in its operations. Alongside buying from third-party suppliers, we produce renewable energy on-site from biogas and, increasingly, through installing solar panels at sites.
This year, we have made progress towards utilising 100% renewable energy across our operations with an increasing number of AB Mauri sites purchasing renewable energy from external suppliers. Manufacturing sites in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Spain all use 100% renewable electricity. Our yeast site in Chiplun, India, has entered a multi-year contract to source electricity from a nearby solar farm and is estimated to save over 6,500 tCO2e/annum compared with electricity from the local power grid.
Our site in Córdoba, Spain has also achieved 100% use of renewable electricity. Solar panels installed in August 2022 generated approximately 8% of the site’s electricity needs in 2022/23. The remainder of its electricity used has been 100% renewable since January 2022.